IATA defined pax weight for flight planning
 

Dear all,

May I ask what is IATA defined each adult passenger weight which includes

body weight, baggage and hand carry ( Summer and winter seasons)

Thanks in advance,

Greenband747

FAA guidelines:

Summer (May-Oct)
190 Ave
200 male/179 female
child 2-14 82

Winter (Nov-Apr)
195 Ave
205 male/184 female
child 2-14 87

The above weights include a 16# allowance for carry-on plus 5# summer or 10# winter clothes.

30# standard checked bag and 60# ave heavy. Most carriers weigh checked bags and then transmit the figures to dispatch.

IATA should not be far from these figures.

An important point to keep in mind is that sensible standard weights are based on population-specific data.

For instance, the early 170lb figure is mid-40s US Army based data (if I recall correctly).

Picking a set of figures out of somewhere is a bit risky unless the population sample being carried has some relationship to the data which went into the particular set of figures which one might propose to use .. This is more a worry with smaller aircraft where population variability becomes comparatively more of a concern ..

... consider two reasonable charter extremes ..

(a) sumo wrestlers

(b) schoolchildren